Orgasm, Sex, Kids, and The British Government

Well, it looks like the British Government’s controversial sex-ed policy rolled out in 2009 is still the thing over there in 2011. The original news that the Brits were going to teach orgasm and sex to kids caused this blogger to make this video:

Now, the British Government’s really turned up the heat. Read this, from the Liftsitenews.com:

Primary schools in many jurisdictions in the UK are being required to teach sex-ed if they wish to be recognized by the country’s Healthy Schools Programme, according to the findings of a national educational trust. The problem, the group says, is that the program is often used to impose a “liberal and permissive type of sex education” that schools would have good reason to object to.

“It is very concerning to find some local authorities insisting that primary schools teach sex and relationships education as a condition of receiving the Healthy Schools award,” said Family Education Trust (FET) director Norman Wells.

“Primary schools that make a principled decision not to teach sex education should not be stigmatised and denied a sought-after award for that reason. There is nothing inherently ‘unhealthy’ about a primary school that decides not to teach sex education.”

What bothers me about the strong-arming tactics is there’s little thinking of what the instruction might encourage. I here story after story from teachers here in Oakland, CA, about how students as young as 11 years old are engaging in all forms of sex – at school.

Given the similar culture, it’s hard to imagine such sexual play isn’t happening in the UK. It’s one thing to inform, but when does the informing start morphing into encouragement?

The real problem is the hyper-information age we live in and the lack of appropriate restraint put on what’s, well, put out there. How often does a kid hear or see something about a sex tape?